Ruby Starr

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I think that Ruby Starr is a great book. It is about a girl named Ruby Starr, who loves reading. She even has a book club called the Unicorns with her best friends, Siri, Jessica, and Daisy (she is especially close to Siri). Everything is perfect until a new girl named Charlotte comes in and tries to become friends with the group. Then trouble begins! Charlotte decides to change everything, including the book club, and to steal Ruby’s best friend (or so she thinks…)! Ruby later finds out that you should also get to know someone before you decide to judge them.

Ruby Starr had a lot of drama, of course, which made it very interesting to read. However, the book wasn’t too dramatic, which was good. I also like how the book had a lot of plot twists but still had a very happy ending. I also like how the book had a lot of imagination, since Ruby loved to daydream. Overall, I think it was a good book, and I recommend it for ages eight to eleven.

Siria’s father is a firefighter. Every night, Siria listens for the sound of sirens. Then, with her friend Douglas, she runs with the red fire trucks to bring her dad good luck. Siria thinks someone has been setting small fires in the neighborhood. She sees flames in the old shed, in the movie theater, and near the creek. Coincidentally, wherever there is a fire, there is always a dog—and Siria wants him for her own. When Siria finds some green wool belonging to someone she knows in the charred shed, she starts to investigate. Even though Siria knows that all the evidence points to her suspect, she realizes that it is possible that someone else could be the arsonist – and she is hoping that is the case.

I liked how, at the beginning of some of the chapters, there were different myths about how the different constellations came to be because Siria was named after the star Sirius. I also liked this book because I did not expect the ending. I would recommend this book for kids ages 8-12.

There’s this boy, named Jinx, and he is a magician as well as a Listener, which is what Urwald, his country, calls someone who can talk to trees. Everybody doesn’t really notice him and soon grows to not like him, because they think he is very powerful and can turn things into other things, but it isn’t really him doing that; he is using Urwald’s life force. He has a friend named Reven, who isn’t very nice, and a friend named Elfwyn, who is nice but has a curse on her that she always has to tell the truth or what she has heard is the truth. There is a Bonemaster, who is trying to take over the land and conquer it; Jinx and his friends have to try and stop him before he kills everyone and destroys the world.

This book had some kind of scary parts, but most of it was kind of funny. Jinx was pretty likeable, and I liked the way he came up with solutions and made his friends understand what he wanted to do. It had a lot of action; Jinx hardly ever rests. Sometimes this book was hard to read, but I really liked the story.

First, I wish I had read the other three books in this series first, though you don’t have to, but I really think you should. For younger kids who might think this book is too big for them, it is not. It is thick, but the words are pretty big and that makes it easier to reach. There are nineteen chapters that help break up the reading and I wish they had put more pictures then two. I know I like pictures and I think it helps make the reading easier for a lot of people. Some of the names are just too hard to say and keep saying and I am not sure why all of these animal books always give animals the weirdest and hardest names.

A cat, a bird, and a frog are the main characters who all have some type of magic. Together they save the queendom only to have stuff go wrong again and they have to go on an adventure to try and prove they are innocent. These three animals can be so funny and kind of remind me of Harry, Hermione, and Ron. If you like Harry Potter and the Warriors, then you will definitely love this book!

Fer is struggling with her friendship with the Puck-boy, Rook. She keeps trying to be friends, but Pucks are known for being disloyal, and so far, that has proved true for Rook, too. But Fer can’t spend too much time worrying about their friendship because when she made the rulers of other kingdoms in the Faerieland swear to take off their evil ‘glamories’, she didn’t know the consequences that would have. Now, as the unfulfilled oaths are poisoning the land, Fer must find a way to save both her world and her friendship.

I wish there had been a little bit more explaining of the mythology, because I didn’t really understand that whole thing. But I liked the different worlds that Fer could travel to in the book, and the descriptive scenes of the lands. Fer was a very likeable character, and very creative and brave. Rook was very annoying; most thirteen-year-old boys are (especially in books)! I liked the solutions to the problems they had, and that Fer was always hoping for the best.